Assessment of the climate preparedness of 30 urban areas in the UK

Heidrich, Oliver; Dawson, RJ; Reckien, Diana; Walsh, Conor

doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0846-9

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“…In Australia on the other hand, adaptation seems to be taking the lead on the climate change strategies where geographically specific action through local adaptation strategies are being prioritised (Baker et al, 2012). Along these lines, recommendations have been made towards embedding adaptation and mitigation efforts in Europe within the urban planning framework, involving appropriately all the "organisations responsible for delivering local infrastructure and services" (Heidrich et al, 2013). To this end the European Mayors Adapt (2014).…”

Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, integration of climate change into city policies remains a challenge (Heidrich et al, 2013;Zanon and Verones, 2013). However, Rayner and Jordan (2013) appreciated that the experiences gained at EU level can be of great importance to those seeking to understand climate policy, both within and between countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

145

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies ABSTRACTGlobally, efforts are underway to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change impacts at the local level. However, there is a poor understanding of the relationship between city strategies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies at national and European level. This paper describes a comparative study and evaluation of cross-national policy.It reports the findings of studying the climate change strategies or plans from 200 European cities from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The study highlights the shared responsibility of global, European, national, regional and city policies. An interpretation and illustration of the influences from international and national networks and policy makers in stimulating the development of local strategies and actions is proposed. It was found that there is no archetypical way of planning for climate change, and multiple interests and motivations are inevitable. Our research warrants the need for a multi-scalar approach to climate policy in the future, mainly ensuring sufficient capacity and resource to enable local authorities to plan and respond to their specific climate change agenda for maximising the management potentials for translating environmental challenges into opportunities

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Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

145

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“…However, engineers hesitate to provide general and transferable costs. Academic literature is lacking "real-life" auditable cost information on adaptation measures (Heidrich et al, 2013) which can be of use to international, national, and local decision makers. Indeed, providing an order of magnitude and reducing uncertainties on the protection costs can remove potential barriers in designing and implementing adaptation strategies (Reckien et al, 2015;Heidrich et al, 2016).…”

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Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates

Lenk

Rybski

Heidrich

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Failure to consider the costs of adaptation strategies can be seen by decision makers as a barrier to implementing coastal protection measures. In order to validate adaptation strategies to sea-level rise in the form of coastal protection, a consistent and repeatable assessment of the costs is necessary. This paper significantly extends current knowledge on cost estimates by developing -and implementing using real coastal dike data -probabilistic functions of dike costs. Data from Canada and the Netherlands are analysed and related to published studies from the US, UK, and Vietnam in order to provide a reproducible estimate of typical sea dike costs and their uncertainty. We plot the costs divided by dike length as a function of height and test four different regression models. Our analysis shows that a linear function without intercept is sufficient to model the costs, i.e. fixed costs and higher-order contributions such as that due to the volume of core fill material are less significant. We also characterise the spread around the regression models which represents an uncertainty stemming from factors beyond dike length and height. Drawing an analogy with project cost overruns, we employ log-normal distributions and calculate that the range between 3x and x/3 contains 95 % of the data, where x represents the corresponding regression value. We compare our estimates with previously published unit costs for other countries. We note that the unit costs depend not only on the country and land use (urban/non-urban) of the sites where the dikes are being constructed but also on characteristics included in the costs, e.g. property acquisition, utility relocation, and project management. This paper gives decision makers an order of magnitude on the protection costs, which can help to remove potential barriers to developing adaptation strategies. Although the focus of this research is sea dikes, our approach is applicable and transferable to other adaptation measures.

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“…One of the modules that invite and engage the students in environmental issues and SD is 'CEN1000-NSustainable Construction (SC)' a module offered to the first year students on the programme. This module gets students to engage in research informed discussions on areas such as environmental impacts of construction in cities 3 , SD, life cycle analysis 15 , resource efficiency, climate change 16 , Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) and environmental assessment 17 . The underpinning concepts are delivered through a series of lectures with a strong emphasis on case studies of live and completed projects that were either successful or unsuccessful in meeting the sustainability criteria set by standards such as 'Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH)' and 'Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment (CEEQUAL)' .…”

Section: Sustainable Design Education At Teesside Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%